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NTOR did not work. Where the biaw should rest “has not been deter-| mined. The collision occurred about 600 feet north of the Louisa at switch, which is a meeting point, jand this ts where the cars should} have passed each other / ‘te OT years old. _— | img crash OF INJURED 6038 26th av. N. E.| their veatibules, were pinned In the 101 24th av. N. E.| wreckage, helplees, and apparently 2313 &. Aloha et.) crushed to death It was not un NSON, 1828 Sev.|til the uninjured passengers had | managed to pash the wrecked care apart by sheer strength that either man could be extricated, and it was found that life stil: remained in (thelr mangled forma. UND, 419 Jefferson,| The force of the collision was) est. [terrific Passengers were thrown 1, 1619 16th av., left | clear }them in many cases, and those arms | standing In the alsie were hurled to the floor In a pile. Several seats! | were torn up bodily and the oceu |pants were catapulted against Windows crashed | # and the broken glass flew through | * | the alr, cutting the faces and hands | ® i* i* L, 5256 11th av. ORN, 2107 26th oe OM, Gaillard, 502 Fifth av. | those in front BAILEY, 906 How. 1528 13th av. "ARK, 131 Second av. N., CAMPBELL, 510 Wash. RKGON, 6038 26th av. T. PRESCOTT, 4126 0 right arm hurt. C, beth lege hurt. KRAUS, 906 Howell st. BLAKESLE B head bruised, right ank A: WARRINGTON, conductor ar. LLL * instances until they were carri ont to the street. Others were} moaning from the pain and shock lof their injurte: regain consciousness until after medical ald had been given INJURIES FATAL Olesen, motorman @utbound car, who was , Med at the Minor hoapl at 12 o'clock 1315 Denny to get clear before the taken in charge by Cor ¥. M. Carroll. eee Pat Yeast 60 persons were hurt, Mdead and two may dic, as the B head-on collision between ity cars at Edgar st. and o'clock this Mwith the early fame together with In the dense fog, tel Windows and smash @nds of the cara of the f, _ rightful impact wa for blocks , Gust Oleson and Con-| A. Warrington, was car ® number of laborers, S™ployed on the exposition And in the grading and t# under way in that +. W. Stark, wi the guards with men | Coming to their work! the hospitals, * @ switch in an ef. | stunned RAL VOL. 10, NO. 243. INBOUND CAR ON WHICH MOTORMAN BOLIN WAS FATAL LY INJURED WERE PASSENGERS ON THIS CAR. The passengers in the two } no warning of danger. The! rs gaara had BD. BOLIN, 2314 Sixth | Inbound car was running at a very [high rate of speed, Fremont, teg motorman on the outbound ear ap ‘Gtushed, internal parently tried to throw on the jemergency brakes, the headway of | | the car had hardly slackened when | i while t they came together with a sicken-| ) Motormen Caught. } Both motormen, hemmed fn in over the seate in front of eeeeeeeeeene of many Few Esc. 5 | It was only thoee at the rear of ¢ cars that escaped some sort jOf injury. The conductors on both cars, standing on the rear plat forms, were hurled against the woodwork and glass, and severely bruised and cut. Conductor Stark had his head badly cut and shoul der braised, and Conductor War rington was severely cut and bruised. eee eeeeeee Pandemonium followed the col- | Uston, when those on the cars man- jaged to. recover from the first shock. The passengers who could regain thetr feet immediately rush- ed for the outside and commenced the work of assisting the injured Women Faint. At first it was thought that a large number were dead. Many | women fatnted from fright, and did not regain consciousness In some and some did not Passengers who had been cut by | }the breaking glass presented a| |} ghastly appearance until the blood was washed off. Those who re tained their presence of mind tele phoned news of the accident as | quickly as they could locate a tele phone, and io « few minutes the hospitals were notified and all the available ambulances sent on a mad run to the scene. Several doctors who could be reached rapidly were | 11° sent along to take care of the in- jured. Rush to Aid. In & moment er two after the col Neion people living in houses closé | by had rushed out to the wreck and gave such aid as they could. Pails of water were carried out to where the injured were being attended to/| by their fellow passengers, and! blankets and rough bandages were hurriedly utilized The street and sidewalks in the vicinity looked like an emergency into hospital on a battlefield when the) doctors and the ambulances arrived. | A few of the more seriously hurt, | several unaconscious and bleeding | from numerous cuts, had been hur- riedly carried into adjacent houses, and these were first attended to. As} quickly as the nature of their in- juries were roughly diagnosed by the doctors, the injured were placed the ambulances and rushed ef —_— WHY OUR COURTS ARE CRITICISED MOST OF THE It was pot until other and quicker had failed that the }be permitted to recover whatever able to walk v wrecked care apart means of rel passengers who were and splintered wood: and *o terribly mangled and }eut that it wae at first thought both the | find the following | motormen had partly recovered com |inelades collateral kindr neral hospital could be obtained. CHARLES D. BOLIN. Motorman, Fatally Hurt. The dense fox which was partly jresponsible for the collision added | ehh matetein actic jto the discomforts of the passen: | it was pot possible to see few hundred feet thrsug® dhe heney gray sett; aap Ste Inbefore specifically men it seemed an interminable length of | time before the ambulances and the doctors arrived by in comparatively few minutes af ter the collision another inbound | Sule Dunbar, who Is our ideal University car reached the scene of} who, like Censar's wife, is) the wreek, and before help had ar-|a siepicion, & man of fearless city, there were six street cars waiting on the tracks | sente@ from the above opinion. He The passengers on | salty “I dissent. 1 think the @ these care offered such assistance | is egtiferred by the plain language as they could, and helped matertally | of statute, which fs not sus im caring for the wounded Can't Fix Blame. The stories of REAR R Ee DOESN'T KNOW CAU “t cannot say what caused @ the wreek,” said A ater, superintendent of trans portation for the Seattie Elec tric company, after. an investi rived from th “it may have beon careless. ness, and it with the switeh cars met about 400 of 500 feet from the Louise st switch in @ head-on collision Many of the passengers, whose injuries are of a minor nature, home in carriages. the accident, as the passengers on the two ® | wrecked care and by the conductor on the Inbound car throws so Hight on the question w ® blame for the collision. Charles Jensen. ® | sition guard, to who was to who is an expo iug with an idea to dete sprained . knee, ® | braised leg and 4 fractured jaw, bé- * | sides a painful internat injury 1 was on my tion grounds, le il i in a ie ee ee ee impact came without «ny and I found myself « a pile ofvother mon had stood next to me, is foreman at ceived a broken leg, another broke his arm, and nearly all were cut-by The injery to my ed by a bottle which n the top of One man who 1 believe he the flying glass side was caw 1 carried in my pocket and the co./ee was Spilled one on the floor.” Taken to Hospital. Fight of the Injured were epital. Of this num. CHARLES JENSEN, eriously injured. severely hurt tended to and were had their injuries at batr in disarray |down Blood streamed Motorman Bolin, whose injuries are ot a very grave na Coats were torn in the fm were cared for at the Seattle pact, and several of the women who had fainted w lesa severely | shirts led on when | Guat Olesen was taken to the Minor | the Olesen was crushed about Food Scattered. Many had carried lunch and remnants of prepared lunch Were scattered about the we on the floor. |lund® bottles splashed the clothing passengers on the cars who suffered from spral | who did not wish to go to the in carriages automobiles, broken glass and debris Several of th terical and se »p serious injuries women were hys-| 4 1 that any of them are hurt med in fear. Conductor Bruised, Stark, who was a conduc tor on the inbound car, was severe ly cut and bruised about the head. “I do not know what caused the | after leaving the trivial injuries and brub themselves frog shock had thrown dozens who still lay where they had fallen, faces blanched and drawn in pain derly they were cared for, and even | strong-hearted | the havoe of the wreck, which they had not foreseen and could not have standing on the rear platform when was knocked out for a fow minutes, but am not serious not*know how the accident happgned or who is to blame, if blame there is,” Pity Motormen, Though they might hay, blame for the terrible ace’ A pathetic ht greeted the un-|two motormen, crushed in the fear. to be either a case of injured immediately after the @ol-| ful wreckage of the front veatibules, Crewe | Maton Women, wild-eyed and/elicited only words of pity from sprawled along the floor,|those who at first vainly. tried to 8, or signals which | some of them with hats té%n off andj extricate the wounded men. Today's Treasury Statement. WASHINGTON, treasury statement today sb celpts $1,860,397 and disbursements ©. A. Reynolds has written for The Gtar three articies on “Why Our Courts Are Criti elaed,” of whigh this is the first MP. Reynolds’ prominence as an attorney gives an importance to his opinions not exceeded even by the timeliness. The e¢cond article will appear Mon. day, the third, Tuesday —ed iter, (No, 1) A portion of section 4828 of Ba Mnger's Code reads as follows “When the death of a person | eawaed by the wrongful act or 1 lecO'of another, his heirs or persor al fopreventatives may maintain an action for damages-against the per son ausing the death ~ In every such . act | the gury may give such damag | peaiiary or ex jall plreametadeces of the case may jto them seem just Meaning Is Plain mplary, an und ‘The foregving seems plain. Any | pert weading that section of the j code, [t would seem, would at « lknew the intent of th They Would say that the jexisiature intended that the wife, husband ohildren, mother, father brother who incurred loss by the wronefal death of a person should dagpeges they could pr Hut our supreme court has sa ft doesn't mean anything of th king, Judge Gordon, former su preme judge, wrote the opinion tr the tase of Noble ve. Senttie, re ported in volume 19, Washing’ Reports, at page 133, in which we Limiting the Heirs. “While in general the term ‘heirs 4 thase who take under the statute of. divtribution, we think that | view of the entire legisiation upon the @ubject, it ne that Parents or re tended ancestors * like — the present, and that the word ‘heirs an ma © © ghowld be held te ade only those persone who ne Uenep. vi: “The widow or widow jand Ber children, or child or child ren if no widow Dunbar Diseonts. integrity and rugged reason, din of construction.” same question came before the. ame court again in the fol-| Nesbit ve. N. P. Ry. Co. 22 Wash, In. this case the mother sued for deatlf of her son. It was held that she could not recover. | Judge Gordon retired from the jbench to take the position of gen eral counsel for the Great Northern Ratiway Co., which position he re contly resigned Robinson va, faltimore & 8. M RK. Co., 16 Wash... 484 Held again that mother oc reeover for the loss of-a son. We how come to the case of M * Tacoma RK. -& Power ¢ j34 Wash. 408, in which we find Thugtage difficult to comprehend This is the language (In view of the fact that the court id not n ne A Meeting Is Called to Protest Against the Car Service. Immediately after the news of the wreck on the ‘University Ine thia morning, President Lyons, of the Eastlake Improvement club, is | sued a call for a special meeting of }the lub members and interested | cltigens in the Franklyn Preabyter }iani chureh, Boylston av tween Frawklin and Hastlake, on next Monday evening. Fhe club has protested to city offftidis on several occasions in the past about the danger of accel dente on the Eastlake line, and in view. of the catastrophe of this! morning. a united demand will probably be made for some imme | diate improvement in the street j ome gervice, net omy on this line {but in other parts of the city as | | well | Protested Often. | Wniier date of September 26 the lelue wrote to Couneilman T. P. Reye}le, protesting against what it t the abominable conditions | rere ee | of the. street car serv on Bast lake AY ‘jt’ has been bad enough In the | pase, but has gradually grown | worse,” the club declared, “until atgthe, present time it te in such condition that the cara are crowd }edite the limit all day long and | inte the night | Weehave petitioned the Seattle Kieetrie Co. but have received | |nothing but promises, This dis-! } “On motion of Senator Mete | Cotterill, Davis, Eidemiiler, Gr |e eee eee 7 THE SEATTLE STAR SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1098. PRICE ONE CENT IFTY ARE INJURED; ONE DIES PIEEDING CARS SMASH TOGETHER IN DENSE MAN AND-ONE PASSENGER ARE ANGLED BEYOND HOPE OF RECOVERY BY C. A. REYNOLDS then declined to reopen the sut joc and that the ticined con struction ha ood for six yeu as a role of decision, we think we should not disturb it. It is further m a fact that, since the ¢ struction was first announced ee regular sessions of the legis lature have been convened and vo change In the statute has been made, It may be reasonably a part sumed that the legislative ¢ con struction of the statute correct, or it would have made tte meaning known by mote definite “We think it proper to say thet as this court is now constituted, if the question were now here as one of original statutory construction. it Is not impossible that a different construction would be adopted.” Change the Wording Would it be Improper or unrea Intakable expreasion wonable to place this construction on the language of our supr Court: “Our eovstruction of this Letter Tells The Star That Richardson’s Counsel Give statute is wrong. For six long ears mothe pérhaps their only support, brought home cold in death as the result act or neglect f inued f has not it in ' of ‘“wron cause this eror has ¢ © long and the legislatur we will co ‘ohg to criticise the eu it ie equally rm nit to stand as the of this state so outrageous onatrection as has been placed up on this statate in the Legisiature. Let us now turn from this jadt cial department of our government to the legislative, and see what has a done there Mr, Halteman Introduced house bill No. 260, which amended sec tion «828 y inserting the words wf deceased have po widow or issue, then his parents, sisters or minor brothers dependent upon him for support, may maintaln said ac tion This bill passed the lower house by a vote of 77 to 10, after striking out the provision for exe damages, but when it reac sawdust ring” in the senate Ite destiny is ead to relate. Here it is house bill No, 260 was indefin! postponed by the following vote Our Public Servants. Those voting aye were Ben ators Anderson Condon, Hunter Kennedy Kline, MeGowan Me egor, Metcalf, Minkler, Piper Polson, Potts, Presley, Rands, Reed Smith, Summer, Veness, Watac Williams.—-20.” The roll of sha Those voting nay were: Sen ators Allen, Blair, Boone, Brown, Hutson, Jones, Nich F Rosenhaupt, Ruth, Scot son.—16, The roll of honor nator Condon has been defeat ed, which is for the general good. Senators Potts, Piper and Williams represent the corporations from King county, and should be re Heved, that the people might have representatives there, We will see that the legislature has an oppor tunity to vote on this qu jon again at the coming se n, and for the sake of every mother, every old father, in the state of Wash ington, we hope that the next le lature will not have a roll of sha to be compared. with that wh disgraced the last senate. CLUB TAKES ACTION ‘ON FATAL COLLISION trict has been held back for years beea of the poor service | Roadbed Was Bad, h complaint addressed | to lon, superintendent of public utilities, under date of October 21, the president of the club said The roadbed from Pine st. to Howell st. is in such shape that it will be only a matter of good luck If the ground doesn't crumble from under the track and leave us all in the diteh. There is not a day passes but one or more cars are derailed, tying up the entire system, an@ compelling us to wait from 30 minutes to an hour, or walk * BANK CLEARINGS. * Seattle. * Clearings today . .$1,4¢ 12 * Balances 206 6 * Tacoma. * Clearings today $781,108 * Balances + Portland. * Clearings today * Balances * eee Oe SEER ES CONSERVATION CONGRESS. (By United Pri WASHINGTON, Doc Carnegie, James J, Hill | Roosevelt about half the gover the states will take part in the Con norvat Andrew ident ‘aft will speak on Tuesday after noon. THE WEATHER PAIR ITON GHT AND EAGT WINDS. FOG PALMER D LAID BARE LLLAWYERS WN IR CAS STORY WAIT TILL DARK OF BAR COMMITTEE HAS THE MOON, THEY WRITE. THUGS PLAN ALL THE FACTS IN THE CASE. Information Concern- Stop Them. ing Court Leak. Emboldened at the has secured Richardson highwaymen Palmer-Root investigation committee during ite The information was. given the had ten times attorneys of Spokane. sented Tony Richardson tn the lith the mysterious m that finally came before the Whitecappers, is as follows: Visions of somnambulistic Telle of Propesitién, bad men with and masks crouching’ behind every former state sen- to see the big} Stor and attorney of Seattle, a& judgment teil of $1secne a a divorcee proceeding for a division property, tm payment to stiffs afraid of being held up. do right they consideration friends | Palmer of $2,500 yhen the matter was laid before Spokane attorneys Olympia and laid the chief fustice of their family they should quake with fear was no roughly dr the supreme “such | be not allowed to write the de (and | Cl#ion In the Richardson case Everything would |Chlef justice informed them that the case had not been decided, but A man must ?When bighwaymen A pen and ink was found to have written by Root, and judgment was Mrs. Richardson fn the sum of $19,000. Wanted to Pay. Richardson expressed to Merritt a highwayman. a highwaywoman highwayette, or perhaps a highway when informed of the mmunications, } not sure whether someone had been writing or not 500, but after con- his attorneys In any event, ferring with not to have done so. has denied to Merritt & Merritt : came from Douglass county, where Richardson In 1904 the supreme court case back for property by a court commis nd trial the court newoomers who were with the fact that this was an town to work announced cowboy Wyoming of the possible the bra vigilantes from » cowboys and the An appeal was taken from this verdict was while this was pending son told Merritt on approached jot and fight it out & Merritt he had MORE SHOPPING DAYS BeFore he could se- a reduction of the verdict to CHRISTMAS KEEP ME BusY NOW was a law partner of Jus ardson, swore him to secrecy. investigating had made an effort to get an affi- Richardson, ARE MISSING NOW a petty officer on the United States ship Gedney Nee last night that he was robbed of $100 in cash and a seal skin vest prized very Mattson says he started aR */to sleep in a Third ay TAFT ON MINING, *| had vanished * . {|DAUGHTER OF TOM JOHNSON DIVORCED (By United Press.) PITTSBURG, mining congress his hearty co-operation It was received with great en been granted a div said in part testified that her husband had never , | ®* awakening to both loss of life | and waste of material | ® Industries. 4 907, at the home of the mayor THOMAS MURDER CASE. We must see to it */@ that the movement is guided and carried forward to clal venire o en war ¢ eat athtennedan tal venire of 60 furymen was called supertor court to be present Monday aident-elect Taft and|cetverahip for the vast properties of Westinghouse the testimony n congress, which opens here | ce t Tuesday, The president and| relieved Thomas mur is charged with murde

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